Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
Edmund BurkeTaxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Edmund BurkeIt is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
Edmund Burke